A room's whites cry loud
Still sound fills it with endless echo
No thought, no audible breath, no
Perspective
This view too is
Outside perceivable depth
Only a snowy canvas
Full of emptiness to reveal
The plan
Grab a roller
Pour the can, and
Paint myself eggshell
Now I am the blank slate
Man
Eggshell Days
We are walking on eggshells and trying not to break them
Do this, don’t do that! To wear a mask or not?
Life used to be so simple
Is it he, she, they or, none?
African American, Black, African Canadian?
Indigenous, Indian, Native?
What will it all be next week?
Confusion is setting in!
The young think the old have become stupid
The old remember a simpler time
The age of fake news
What is true and what is not?
The great sifting is happening
Impurities falling to the ground but the fine and refined remains
Like the panning for gold
We search for it madly
Beauty and value must be brought to the surface
While the rest must fall
Truth must prevail, love must conquer all!
The eggshells are breaking from the weight of these things
Choices of words, music, art
All under scrutiny
Corruption of politics
When will it end?
A virus unravels all
Like a huge tornado leaving destruction
and tossing things in new places
uprooting and replacing
Put your shoes on and walk the eggshell path
Make your choices
The best that you can
Grace Daub August 11, 2020
My heart shattered glass
My eyes twin rain clouds
My sleeves wet rag cloths
My sobs persistent freight trains
My fingers frozen ice
My surroundings a blurry dream
I make the corners of my lips curve up for the people around me
Even though I myself is a cold, cracked eggshell
Only barely held together.
A broken mirror reflecting
all my imperfections.
A giant blade that's cutting me into
many different sections.
rip out my heart, bastard.
throw it on the floor.
destroy it on the count of three.
and i will beg for more.
for more.
See this heart
fragile like an eggshell
it’s been to Hell and back
and is slowly fusing back together
handle it with care
because she never did
she was never there
See this heart
fragile like an eggshell
Treat it well
like she never could
like she never wanted to
See this heart
fragile like an eggshell
please don’t bid it farewell
as easily as she did
I winced disenchantment whenever you fell
Through countless absurdities I held my tongue
While you courted your daydreams from hell.
I mastered the rules willing all to be well
As you blitzed career ladders splintering each rung
I winced disenchantment whenever you fell.
I laid low, so fierce your desire to excel
Your mint julep put-downs like scorpions stung
While you courted your daydreams from hell.
I wallowed in patience, don’t ask and don’t tell
I begged your repentance where hope’s crosses hung
I winced disenchantment whenever you fell.
A childishly reckless, indulged Southern Belle
Your frivolous insults so flippantly flung
While you courted your daydreams from hell.
For years poise and wit lulled me lame with their spell
I yearned for the charmed days when love’s fruits first sprung
But your mind’s locked up tight in a bright padded cell
I winced disenchantment whenever you fell
While you courted your daydreams from hell.
What ever I say turns into a fight
When will you ever get me right?
Once you have a certain perception
It changes the idea of your conception
And when I stay it bluntly as I do
You take it wrong because the insecurity lies in YOU!
I can admit my mistakes and more
Just remember I m older and I know more for sure
I try and look out for you when you wave to strangers who drive by
Outside I smile but inside I cry
If I told you to stop it
You’ll run out in a hysterical fit
I need you to support me in things I do
But I have to play a game to please you
If I was my self you would leave and never look back
Having said that the eggs will soon crack
1996
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